This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from …

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from …

laboratory experiments. We nd that as long as there is some degree of social fragmentation, increasing it leads to lower public … diversity is actually welfare-improving. Finally, social fragmentation is felt differently for visible minorities, whose … good provision. This is mainly because the share of those who contribute fully to the public good diminishes with social …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … social fragmentation to show that different types of social fragmentation are associated with dramatically different outcomes … heterogeneity both within and across religions. Therefore, relying on aggregate measures of social fragmentation may conceal …

abolishing or diminishing the social fragmentation and the lack of communication in the offline life. …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … social fragmentation to show that different types of social fragmentation are associated with dramatically different outcomes … heterogeneity both within and across religions. Therefore, relying on aggregate measures of social fragmentation may conceal …